Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Rodef Shalom Biblical Botanical Garden
This Old Testament garden features 100 plants from biblical times.
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
This Old Testament garden features 100 plants from biblical times.
Sonoma, California
The unedited photograph called "Bliss" has graced the screens of over a billion computers.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This meticulously extracted nervous system allegedly came from a 19th-century custodian who donated her body to science.
Atlanta, Georgia
A grassroots community effort in the 1970s led to the creation of this beautiful garden full of delightfully whimsical exhibits.
Hot Springs, North Carolina
North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.
Washington Island, Wisconsin
This pebble beach is so beautiful that taking its rocks is against the law.
Salem, Massachusetts
Experience the hysteria of a 17th century witch hunt through goofy reenactments and wax dummies that should probably be burned at the stake.
Mouth of Wilson, Virginia
The highest point in Virginia can only be reached by passing through ponies and flowers.
La Push, Washington
Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.
McLean, Virginia
A secretive collection featuring objects that were designed specifically for U.S. intelligence operations.
Latrobe, Pennsylvania
The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.
Denver, Colorado
Where scientists keep miles of very valuable ice from Antarctica and Greenland from melting.
New York, New York
New York's oldest and possibly grandest keeper of books.
Shelby, Michigan
A lavender labyrinth so large it’s visible on Google Earth.
Seattle, Washington
A sliver of nostalgia in Seattle's Viretta Park.
St. Joseph, Missouri
The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.
Hawaii
This black shoreline is made up of exploded lava particles.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Parts of the civil rights movement unfolded in this historic eatery, helmed by the "Queen of Creole Cuisine."
Brooklyn, New York
A charming "tea atelier" hidden away in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
Jacksonville, Florida
This ancient octopus-like tree was saved from destruction thanks to shady reporting.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A treasure trove of rare and exquisitely detailed antiques
Waterbury, Vermont
The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.
Monroe, Utah
One man has installed bathtubs into the Utah desert floor to harness the powers of a natural hot spring.
Rancho Palos Verdes, California
A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.